After finally making level 80 with Wilburpost, I was disappointed, to say the least, in other players reactions to my "gear score." I couldn't do a battleground without someone commenting on my low gear score. FYI, my gear score was 2502 according to this website. Also, according to the same website, my gear score does indeed suck, as the average gear score for level 80s on Shattered Halls is around 5200, give or take. But... how does one get a better gear score? Well, for PvP gear, you have to do PvP. It appears that there are plenty of people around who just can't remember what it was like trying to get better gear when they had just made level 80... or maybe they were lucky enough to be doing that when there weren't an abundance of people who had already gotten better gear.
Regardless of the feeling that they need to comment, the real reason for this post is that I have also discovered just how meaningless gear score can be. I also have a level 65 druid on the Tortheldrin realm, and while I don't remember what his gear score is, I do remember that his gear was rated a "win" by the same website. But, I can honestly say that his gear is terrible because I originally specced his talents for feral combat, but recently changed that to a hybrid of balance and restoration. Clearly specs that require totally different gear.
Finally, to make the whole gear score thing totally pointless, I just upgraded one piece of gear on Wilburpost so that his stats were MARGINALLY better... and actually raised his gear score by MORE THAN 100! I really didn't think it would make much difference as I actually traded down some stats for the increase in some stats that I thought were more important for that toon.
At any rate, I had an idea that gear score was just an elitist joke before all this... but there are plenty of knuckleheads that are so engrossed by this single stat that they actually check everyone's gear score... and feel the need to insult people on that basis. Disappointing.
Incidentally, it's not like Wilburpost is a noob in battlegrounds, with just over 12,000 honorable kills.
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